JoAnn also practices at the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden in Harvard, MA which serves clients throughout the Boston and MetroWest areas. (www.healinggarden.net)
The Healing Garden was founded in 2001, with a mission to provide therapeutic services and educational programs in a healing environment to women experiencing breast cancer. In these years since they have opened their doors, they have demonstrated outstanding successful outcomes for breast cancer clients and proven that these therapeutic services are a valuable resource for all.
In 2012, the Healing Garden Board of Directors unanimously approved a revision to the mission to expand their scope of practice to all people with cancer regardless of diagnosis, gender or financial barriers. Moreover, the Board supports an 
additional initiative to be on the forefront of global cancer prevention by providing their expertise in therapeutic services and wellness education to the community at large, so that the Garden's unique and remarkable environment will reach as many people as possible, to educate, to empower, to heal and to live well.
A cancer diagnosis is a frightening one. Acupuncture can be helpful for dealing with the stress and anxiety of the diagnosis as well as the side effects of treatment, including nausea, vomiting and fatigue.